Are you ready to launch your writing career? You’ll need an online presence where readers can find you. In this class, we’ll work through the step-by-step process of setting up the typical three-page author website. Plus, we will explore how to start a blog and examine ways to keep a blog fresh and successful. Students should plan to bring a laptop to class to complete in-class exercises.

Most writers dream of publishing a book with a hard cover, amazing cover art, and their photo on the dust jacket. But how do we get there? In this seminar, we will discuss various paths to publishing–the successes, the failures, and even more of the failures. We will learn strategies for presenting our stories to magazines, agents, and publishers, from choosing the best agency for your work to developing an attention grabbing query letter. We will also discuss specific markets…

You are ready to start querying your manuscript to agents. That’s so exciting! But what exactly is a query? What do you include in it? How do you even figure out who to query? If you make a mistake, will you be on some publishing blacklist forever? (The answer to that last one is absolutely not). There’s a lot of information online and it can be confusing. This seminar with Caitie Flum will teach you all of the querying basics…

You’ve written a great book, but the query letter/literary agent/publisher game isn’t your cup of tea. Have you considered self-publishing? With print-on-demand, it's easier than ever to get your book into print—and e-books are even easier! From platform choice to formatting and cover design, this workshop will answer your questions and walk you through the process of getting your manuscript ready to market in both print and e-book formats.

Everyone has a personal brand these days: authors, writers, comedians, storytellers of all kind have some kind of brand and/or persona. My seminar will help attendants learn what a brand is, how to identify theirs, and ways to use it to promote their work or storytelling.